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Analysis of posts to Rec.Crafts.Metalworking
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(stats compiled with a script by Garry Knight)


Total posts considered: 1,332 over 7 days
Earliest article: Mon Mar 2 14:43:52 2009
Latest article: Sun Mar 8 22:55:40 2009
Original articles: 87, replies: 1,245
Total size of posts: 4,354,488 bytes (4,252K) (4.15M)
Average 190 articles per day, 0.59 MB per day, 3,269 bytes per article
Total headers: 1,807 KB bodies: 2,444 KB
Body text - quoted: 1,466 KB, original: 796 KB = 35.21%, sigs: 177 KB
Total number of posters: 243, average 17,919 bytes per poster
Total number of threads: 151, average 28,837 bytes per thread
Total number of User-Agents: 48

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Top 20 posters by number of articles
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1: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 77
2: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 71
3: Wes ................................ ......... : 67
4: "Buerste" ................................. ... : 66
5: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 49
6: Curly Surmudgeon .................... : 44
7: "Libby Loo" ................................ . : 35
8: F. George McDuffee .......... : 33
9: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 31
10: cavelamb .......................... .... : 21
11: "Wild_Bill" ...................... . : 20
12: "Hawke" ....................... ..... : 19
13: Larry Jaques ................... : 18
14: MillerT .......................... ..... : 17
15: Don Foreman ................... . : 17
16: "Karl Townsend" .............. : 15
17: "Elliot G" ............................ .. : 15
18: "DoN. Nichols" .......................... : 14
19: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 14
20: "SteveB" ............................ .... : 14

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Top 20 posters by article size in Kbytes
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1: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 381
2: "Buerste" ................................. ... : 256
3: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 251
4: Curly Surmudgeon .................... : 195
5: Gunner Asch ..................... . : 169
6: "Libby Loo" ................................ . : 142
7: F. George McDuffee .......... : 124
8: Wes ................................ ......... : 122
9: "Calif Bill" ...................... .. : 84
10: Beam Me Up Scotty .... : 83
11: "Hawke" ....................... ..... : 83
12: Cliff ............................... ....... : 68
13: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 68
14: "Wild_Bill" ...................... . : 60
15: cavelamb .......................... .... : 60
16: "John R. Carroll" ......... : 51
17: MillerT .......................... ..... : 50
18: Larry Jaques ................... : 49
19: Don Foreman ................... . : 49
20: Strabo ........................... ...... : 48

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Top 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: Ecnerwal ...... .... : 92.72%
2: Bob Engelhardt ..................... : 87.17%
3: "Lloyd E. Sponenburgh" lloydspinsidemindspring.com........... : 80.55%
4: GeoLane at PTD dot NET GeoLane at PTD dot NET................ : 80.54%
5: "Stupendous Man" ............................... : 79.61%
6: "Robert Swinney" ........................... : 78.70%
7: RoyJ .......................... ........ : 73.59%
8: "Joe AutoDrill" ........................... : 72.49%
9: F. George McDuffee .......... : 72.31%
10: "Roger Shoaf" .......................... . : 71.99%
11: "Karl Townsend" .............. : 69.10%
12: Richard J Kinch ............................ : 68.88%
13: Brian Lawson .......................... .. : 66.02%
14: Jim Wilkins ................................ . : 63.69%
15: ......................................... : 63.05%
16: axolotl ............................. ..... : 61.97%
17: Ned Simmons ................................. . : 61.12%
18: BottleBob .......................... ... : 60.69%
19: Leon Fisk ......................... ... : 59.86%
20: Bruce L. Bergman ................ : 59.54%

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Bottom 20 responders by original text ( 5 posts)
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1: Cliff ............................... ....... : 5.07%
2: ................................. : 5.99%
3: Beam Me Up Scotty .... : 8.23%
4: "CalifBill" ........................ . : 11.22%
5: "Libby Loo" ................................ . : 13.00%
6: Jeff Mc ............................. ..... : 15.07%
7: HK .......................... .......... : 16.10%
8: Curly Surmudgeon .................... : 16.37%
9: Tim Wescott ............................ . : 17.18%
10: .......................................... : 18.68%
11: "ATP*" ...................... ...... : 19.08%
12: Too_Many_Tools ...................... : 19.64%
13: "David R.Birch" ............................. : 20.12%
14: "Buerste" ................................. ... : 22.00%
15: cavelamb .......................... .... : 22.18%
16: Winston_Smith ............................ . : 23.69%
17: "Calif Bill" ...................... .. : 24.16%
18: "Terry Coombs" ......................... : 26.14%
19: "Pete C." ............................. ... : 26.14%
20: "Ed Huntress" ....................... . : 29.33%

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Top 20 threads by no. of articles
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1: OT - Operation Rushbo.......................................... : 119
2: Why is Sarah Palin in.......................................... : 77
3: #OT# Raiding the pension "trust funds"......................... : 72
4: Dow Falls Below 7000 for First Time Since 1997................. : 47
5: Free design engineering book................................... : 39
6: #OT# PMI, smoke and and the taxpayer's sphincter............... : 38
7: What valves look like on a 58 year old compressor.............. : 36
8: OT: Small appliances - again! Coffee maker..................... : 33
9: How's that pool coming, Iggy?.................................. : 31
10: Another Day....Another Lying Republican........................ : 28
11: Portable Line Boring........................................... : 25
12: Shipping a mill.............................................. .. : 24
13: UHMW, Delrin, Teflon, Nylon offcuts on sale.................... : 24
14: Plating for Cast Aluminum Parts Chrome or Nickel............... : 24
15: In praise of RCM'ers........................................... : 24
16: Adjusting an overload properly................................. : 23
17: Mostly OT: meeting with some designers of cardiac implants..... : 23
18: Gear Compatibility..................................... ........ : 22
19: Quincy unloader, was Adjusting an overload properly........ : 22
20: Pellet Gun Idea.............................................. .. : 21

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Top 20 threads by size in KB
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1: OT - Operation Rushbo.......................................... : 626
2: #OT# Raiding the pension "trust funds"......................... : 266
3: Why is Sarah Palin in.......................................... : 265
4: Dow Falls Below 7000 for First Time Since 1997................. : 159
5: #OT# PMI, smoke and and the taxpayer's sphincter............... : 153
6: Another Day....Another Lying Republican........................ : 111
7: What valves look like on a 58 year old compressor.............. : 108
8: Mostly OT: meeting with some designers of cardiac implants..... : 95
9: OT: Small appliances - again! Coffee maker..................... : 91
10: Free design engineering book................................... : 83
11: How's that pool coming, Iggy?.................................. : 78
12: Plating for Cast Aluminum Parts Chrome or Nickel............... : 72
13: Portable Line Boring........................................... : 67
14: Quincy unloader, was Adjusting an overload properly........ : 66
15: OT - Is the third time the charm for AIG?...................... : 64
16: UHMW, Delrin, Teflon, Nylon offcuts on sale.................... : 61
17: Flour bomblets, was Explaining The Stimulus Plan............... : 61
18: OT - There has to be a country music song in all this.......... : 61
19: Adjusting an overload properly................................. : 60
20: Gear Compatibility..................................... ........ : 58

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Top 10 cross-posted groups
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1: misc.survivalism.................................. ............. : 329
2: alt.machines.cnc.................................. ............. : 207
3: alt.politics.republican........................... ............. : 152
4: alt.rush-limbaugh.......................................... .... : 135
5: alt.politics.bush................................. ............. : 131
6: alt.usenet.kooks.................................. ............. : 93
7: alt.impeach.bush.................................. ............. : 79
8: rec.boats......................................... ............. : 68
9: sci.engr.joining.welding.......................... ............. : 20
10: rec.woodworking................................... ............. : 19

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Top 10 User Agents by poster
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1: G2/1.0............................................... .......... : 63
2: Microsoft Outlook Express...................................... : 56
3: Forte Agent............................................. ....... : 26
4: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209)........................ : 20
5: Mozilla........................................... ............. : 10
6: rn................................................ ............. : 10
7: Xnews............................................. ............. : 6
8: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6001.18000.......................... : 5
9: Unknown........................................... ............. : 5
10: Forte Free Agent............................................. .. : 5

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Top 10 User Agents by number of posts
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1: Outlook Express........................................... : 365 (27%)
2: Forte Agent............................................. .. : 239 (18%)
3: G2................................................ ........ : 210 (16%)
4: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows............................. : 115 ( 9%)
5: slrn.............................................. ........ : 68 ( 5%)
6: Pan............................................... ........ : 52 ( 4%)
7: Forte Free Agent.......................................... : 52 ( 4%)
8: Mozilla........................................... ........ : 44 ( 3%)
9: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 12.0.1606..................... : 35 ( 3%)
10: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6000.16386..................... : 20 ( 2%)

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Top 10 time zones
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1: -0500.............................................. ............ : 391
2: -0600.............................................. ............ : 295
3: -0800.............................................. ............ : 191
4: -0800 (PST)............................................. ....... : 188
5: UTC............................................... ............. : 119
6: -0700.............................................. ............ : 64
7: -0400.............................................. ............ : 50
8: -0700 (PDT)............................................. ....... : 22
9: +0100............................................. ............. : 5
10: +0300............................................. ............. : 2

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Turquoise SuperStat 2.2 * Message area statistics
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(c) Copyright 1998-2005 Peter Karlsson

This report covers 5615 messages written between 2009-02-09 00:00:10 and
2009-03-08 23:47:06

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Blacklist of quoters (of people who have written at least three messages)

Place Name Msgs Ratio
1. ah 3 94.86%
2. Mr. Fusspot 3 94.58%
3. Observer 3 93.92%
4. T.Alan Kraus 4 92.76%
5. Ralph Henrichs 5 91.90%
6. Beam Me Up Scotty 14 91.73%
7. Gray Ghost 12 91.53%
8. Poultry in motion 3 91.37%
9. 5 91.03%
10. 6 90.69%
11. mich 9 90.38%
12. Up North 5 90.16%
13. Bama Brian 6 89.87%
14. Dan 13 89.79%
15. Lloyd 9 89.52%

A total of 9824999 bytes were written (message bodies only), of which
6155351, or 62.65%, were quotes.

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Toplist of writers

Place Name Msgs Bytes Quoted
1. Gunner Asch 338 624109 57.4%
2. Ed Huntress 293 694574 4.1%
3. Too_Many_Tools 235 801063 26.7%
4. Wes 212 129046 48.5%
5. Curly Surmudgeon 156 450152 73.6%
F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-associates. 156 400585 24.3%
7. Buerste 138 302905 77.9%
8. Jim Wilkins 135 123306 39.0%
9. Cliff 121 182438 78.5%
10. John R. Carroll 108 164143 67.4%
11. Larry Jaques 92 126970 62.1%
12. DoN. Nichols 90 204523 40.6%
13. Libby Loo 74 169152 82.2%
Don Foreman 74 100587 54.4%
15. cavelamb 68 89790 75.4%

A total of 548 people were identified.

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Toplist of original content per message (of people who have written at
least three messages)

Place Name Orig. / Msgs = PrMsg Quoted
1. Statistics 72993 / 4 = 18248
2. 27927 / 7 = 3989
3. Frnak McKenney . 9693 / 3 = 3231 43.0%
4. www.iofferkicks.com iofferkicks0025@gmail. 22589 / 7 = 3227
5. dfffffffffffff 6384 / 3 = 2128
6. 21237 / 10 = 2123
7. Ignoramus13596 9777 / 5 = 1955 22.9%
8. F. George McDuffee gmcduffee@mcduffee-asso303210 / 156 = 1943 24.3%
9. Scott S. Logan 7484 / 4 = 1871 12.1%
10. Ignoramus20263 10054 / 6 = 1675 30.4%
11. Kirk Gordon 13836 / 9 = 1537 49.5%
12. oldjag 6036 / 4 = 1509 37.9%
13. DoN. Nichols 121497 / 90 = 1349 40.6%
14. Ecnerwal 13455 / 10 = 1345 12.5%
15. Wild_Bill 53228 / 41 = 1298 41.1%

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Toplist of subjects

Place Subject Msgs Bytes
1. OT - There has to be a country music song in all this.... 139 409570
2. The Bush Economy, 20FEB09 121 279411
3. OT - Operation Rushbo 118 423987
4. Explaining The Stimulus Plan 104 174883
5. Was W this stupid? 88 258675
Energy Rant: Competition *doubles* prices???? 88 144307
7. Good economic news! + metalworking 86 198956
8. We're sure going to miss ol' GW 79 141398
9. Global warming 'underestimated' 77 142167
Why is Sarah Palin in... 77 124866
11. #OT# Raiding the pension "trust funds" 75 169370
12. We live in interesting times...... 74 125947
13. OT - Is the third time the charm for AIG? 73 264000
14. Press One For English 71 95163
15. What is it? Set 272 66 68047

A total of 484 subjects were identified.

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Toplist of programs

Place Program Msgs
1. Microsoft Outlook Express 1446
2. G2 874
3. Forte Agent 747
4. Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 445
5. Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English 355
6. Forte Free Agent 318
7. slrn 304
8. Pan 185
9. Microsoft Windows Mail 133
10. Xnews 96
11. Mozilla 93
12. Microsoft Windows Live Mail 86
13. MT-NewsWatcher 75
14. tin 37
15. Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 35

A total of 43 different programs (not counting different versions) were
identified.

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